Il Trionfo della Morte di Palermo e Antonello da Messina

Abstract

The study takes its cue from new and relevant iconographic and iconological acquisitions of the famous Triumph of Death in Palermo which link the fresco to the story of blessed Matteo d'Agrigento, the friar companion of San Bernardino da Siena and protagonist of the Franciscan Observance reform in Sicily, leading to Salvatore Tramontana's hypothesis of an involvement in the creation of the fresco of the young Antonello da Messina.